adjective, straighter, straightest. 1. without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path. 2. exactly vertical or horizontal; in a perfectly vertical or horizontal plane: a straight table. 3. (of a line) generated by a point moving at a constant velocity with respect to another point.
In the order of The Canterbury Tales, the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale are preceded by The Physician's Tale. The Physician's Tale is a harrowing tale about a judge who plots with a churl [low fellow] to abduct a beautiful young woman; rather than allow her to be raped, her father beheads her.n the General Prologue of the Tales, the Pardoner is introduced with these lines: With hym ther rood a gentil Pardoner. Of Rouncivale, his freend and his compeer, That streight was comen fro the court of Rome.
Essay on Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is a Masterpiece - Geoffrey Chaucer's masterpiece The Canterbury Tales depicts characters from every stratum of feudal society and exposes the contradictions of the character's social roles. As a Church representative, the Pardoner, for instance, is to be a scammer of gullible believers.